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To the Gold Coast for Gold

To the Gold Coast for Gold by BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
To the Gold Coast for Gold
Author
BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1883. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month search for gold was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton's report that ""there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked,"" a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. ""The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in"" (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, 455). Penzer, 106. A few expert repairs to folding map opposite title page of Volume I, wear to one fold of folding map at rear of Volume I. Text clean, full morocco-gilt bindings fine and beautiful.
Obsequies at Oxford

Obsequies at Oxford by Crispin, Edmund

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Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Obsequies at Oxford
Author
Crispin, Edmund
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Philadelphia - New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1945. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Small octavo, 208 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.00 on front flap, light wear at extremities of dust jacket. First edition, stated; owner name and date on ffep.
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Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments

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Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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Deseret News, 1877. Very Good. Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1877. 161pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges, gently bumped spine ends with two small cracks at top joints, cover has three small stains, and rear cover is faintly scratched at bottom edge. Front gutter is cracked, front free endsheet has teh residue of an old bookplate, and front free endsheet has an inscription that read ""Utah County Enquirer with the compliments of Provo City"".
Souvenirs Pieux

Souvenirs Pieux by YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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Title
Souvenirs Pieux
Author
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris, France: Gallimard, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); dustjacket; 302pp. Text in French. Pictorial card laid-in, with gift inscription written in French and dated 1976. Lightly tanned with light shelf-wear, and creases to right margin of text; Very Good. Dustwrapper, lightly tanned, with light shelf-wear, sticker residue to lower rear panel, and tiny tears to lower spine panel; Very Good. Memoir by first woman elected to Academie Francaise (1980). Winner of French literary award, Grand Prix national de la culture, and later translated to English as Dear Departed: A Memoir by Maria Loiuse Ascher. [88929].

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